Fallen railway bridge Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/21/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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[RO]Drumul primei cai ferate romane traverseaza raul Arges. A fost odata si un pod.

[EN]On the path of the first railway lies the river Arges and once there was a bridge, too.

[RO]Prima cale ferata din Romania a fost construita in 1869 si lega Bucuresti (gara Filaret) cu Giurgiu, oras port la Dunare.

De atunci gara Filaret a fost transformata in auto-gara, dar calea ferata, conectata la centura Bucurestiului in apropiere de Jilava, Berceni si Bucuresti Progresu a continuat sa functioneze pana in anul 2005.

Maretele planuri ale regimului comunist sub Nicolae Ceausescu doreau sa creeze o cale navigabila pentru transportul de marfa chiar la marginea capitalei, transformand cursul inferior al raului Arges pana aproape de localitatea Mihailesti. Dupa caderea regimului in 1989, planurile au fost prompt abandonate. Uriasul rezervor de apa care trebuia sa regleze debitul raului, acum lacul Mihailesti, era deja terminat, dar portul aflat putin mai la sud este doar partial terminat.
Pentru a traversa Argesul ca si cale navigabila a fost nevoie si de inaltarea unor poduri. La Adunatii Copaceni, podul rutier al soselei catre Giurgiu este functional.
Calea ferata traverseaza raul intre Falastoaca si Gradistea. Aici s-a construit un pod nou, foarte inalt. Noul pod insa nu a fost terminat iar pilonii deja se degradeaza.
Vechiul pod s-a prabusit dupa ce pilonul de pe malul sudic a cedat ca urmare a extractiilor masive de balast din albia raului, care s-a adancit. Se pare ca podul a cazut la putin timp dupa trecerea unui tren, dar din cate am aflat, nu au fost victime.

Astazi nu mai trece nici un tren pe aici.

Cutie de plastic cu :
- jurnal
- creion
- insigna
- roca din alta lume :P

[EN] The first railway in Romania connected Bucharest (Filaret station) with Giurgiu, a port city on the Danube, to the south, in the year 1869.

Since then, Filaret station was transformed into an inter-urban bus station, but the railway, now connected in the south of the capital near Jilava, Berceni and Bucuresti Progresu, still exists, and was in use until 2005.

Grand plans to bring shipping to the capital, by transforming the lower part of the river Arges from the Danube up to Mihailesti into a navigation lane fell short with the fall of the regime in 1989. A large reservoir known as "lacul Mihailesti" was completed and a partially built dock a little to the south.
Further south lies the high road bridge at "Adunatii Copaceni", built so high to allow ships below to pass, though ships have yet to pass below it.

The railway passes between Falastoaca and Gradistea. A new, high bridge's construction has started a long time ago, and was never finished, the main span and pilons already in disrepair.
The old bridge lies beneath it, one pilon leaning towards the river and the souther span fallen.
Many small enterprises extract ballast from the riverbed and surrounding land and some blame them for extracting ballast right from near the bridge itself, which caused it to collapse in 2005. Fortunately, AFAIK nobody was hurt.

Today no trains come this way.

Nearby, to the south-west lies the wild life preserve of "Comana", forrest and a lake on the river Neajlov. (visit link)

Cache is a small plastic can
Initial contents :
- log
- pencil
- insignia
- rock from outer space :P

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[EN] orgjrra gur fxl naq gur rnegu yvrf ... [RO] vager pre fv cnznag fr nsyn ...

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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